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who were now relieved from duty in the forest, and the 
spectators retired to their bungalows for the night. 
The business of the third day began by noosing and 
tying up the new captives, and the first sought out was 
their magnificent leader. Siribeddi and the tame tusker 
having forced themselves on either side of her, a boy in 
the service of the Kata-Mahatmeya succeeded in attach- 
ing a rope to her hind-foot. Siribeddi moved off, but 
feeling her strength insufficient to drag the reluctant 
prize, she went down on her fore-knees, so as to add the 
full weight of her body to the pull. The tusker, seeing 
her difficulty, placed himself in front of the prisoner, and 
forced her backwards, step by step, till his companion 
brought her fairly up to the tree, and wound the rope 
round the stem. Though overpowered by fear, she 
showed the fullest sense of the nature of the danger she 
had to apprehend. She kept her head turned towards 
the noosers, and tried to step in advance of the de- 
coys ; in spite of all their efforts, she tore off the first 
noose from her fore-leg, and placing it under her foot, 
snapped it into fathom lengths. When finally secured, 
her writhings were extraordinary. She doubled in her 
head under her chest, till she lay as round as a hedge- 
hog, and rising again, stood on her fore-feet, and lifting 
her hind-feet off the ground, she wrung them from side 
to side, till the great tree above her quivered in every 
branch. 
Before proceeding to catch the others, we requested 
that the smaller trees and jungle, which partially ob- 
structed our view, might be broken away, being no longer 
essential to screen the entrance to the corral ; and five 
of the tame elephants were brought up for the purpose. 
They felt the strength of each tree with their trunks, 
